As I blogged earlier, Akismet has passed a huge milestone today. It has crossed 1 Billion Comment Spam blocked a few hours ago.
Besides me, a lot of people have been guessing on when this milestone would be reached and as guessed, it was reached over the weekend. As outlined in the picture below, two stats [...]
March 23, 2007 – 12:20 pm
You can’t stand spam. I can’t stand spam. Fortunately for us and most of the people using Wordpress, Akismet is the perfect plugin dealing with comment spam. Akismet is the brainchild of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and his merry band of Automattic hackers. Their favorite definition of kismet is “Kismet (principle), the magnetic attractive force that [...]
Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. This Blog is powered by WordPress and looks like it is only about to get even better. WordPress is among [...]
The White House released (at 9 AM Tuesday, March 20) a directive to all Federal CIOs, requiring that all new IT system acquisitions, beginning June 30, 2007, use a common secure configuration and, even more importantly, requiring information technology providers (integrators and software vendors) to certify that the products they deliver operate effectively using these [...]
This article is part # 4 in this series of penetration and security testing of a corporate network. Previously I talked about some dirty tactics which penetration testers might have to use. I also started this series by talking in general about Penetration and security testing and also some important computer security keywords and terminologies.
In [...]
I was writing an article on how to use HTTP to view web banner information. My first choice was to use the big G, Google.com. However, when I used the command nc google.com 80 and used OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1, Google generated this error message.
It is also interesting to observe how Google generates its logo using [...]
Okay, this email is rather funny. A spammer who knows his spam email might be blocked informs me that since this particular email has passed through my spam filters, I now have an opportunity to know about his great services and products. Apparantly the spammer focuses on customer service and support too …
If you are one of those poeple using a Digital camera to capture pictures, when you import your pictures to your computer, chances are that you have a wierd naming scheme such as DSC001021 something etc. Using this tip, you would be able to rename many pictures all at once.
1. Open the folder where you [...]
Xbox Live has recently hit 6 million users and on this occasion, Microsoft has released some stats. Following is the full press release from Microsoft letting us know of the various stats and numbers
Xbox 360 | Momentum Fact Sheet
• More than 10 million Xbox 360s have hit store shelves since launch in November 2005, and [...]
Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the United States. DST will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual. This results in a new DST period that is four weeks longer [...]